Deer season opens this coming weekend (gun; archery was last month). I’m getting excited. Already been having dreams, and have been waking up early in anticipation of having to get up early to get out to the property.

I need to run my rifles back by the local indoor range just to (re)verify zero. They should be where I want them, but I can’t help but want to re-verify to be sure. The thing is, using the 6.8 SPC rifle is new… and while I know it will do the job, gosh but something makes me want to use my .308 bolt-action instead. Maybe because it’s proven? Maybe because it’s a big-ass .308″ 168 grain Barnes TSX instead of a 85 grain .277″ TSX. I don’t know. I know it’ll work. I really want to use the 6.8 to take the deer, but the .308 is going to come with me. Maybe it’s the false start with the 6.8 that’s making me waver a bit.

So as I’m packing the rifles up for the range trip, I see that I don’t have as much Federal P308H as I thought I had. This is a Federal factory load, .308 Winchester, 165 grain Barnes TSX. It’s a good round, always performed well for me. But it got me thinking… I want to start on rifle cartridge reloads after deer season calms down. I thought to do .223 Rem to get me back into the swing of rifle reloading. 6.8 is something I want to do. But gosh… if I don’t have a lot of .308 maybe I should just do that to get stocked up.

Too many things buzzing through my head. 🙂 Right now, just need to focus on the deer.